Peer-Reviewed - Matthew A. Schnurr

Please contact me at matthew.schnurr@dal.ca for copies of any articles that you are unable to access through the links provided.

Dowd-Uribe, Glover, & Schnurr. (2014). Seeds and places: The geographies of transgenic crops in the global south. Geoforum, 53, 145-148

This editorial forms the introduction to a collection of papers that links geographical perspectives on science, knowledge, and practice, to debates around hunger and transgenic crops. We argue that the dynamics of agricultural production and patterns of food consumption are inescapably local and solutions to the problem of world hunger must be tailored to specific …

Meer & Schnurr. (2013). The community versus community-based natural resource management: The case of Ndumo game reserve, South Africa. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 34(4), 482-497.

Written with one of my former MA students, this article investigates the escalating violence directed by community members towards the Ndumo game reserve in South Africa, which has pitted residents against the reserve they are invested in as owners and managers. We argue that the destruction and violence at Ndumo are best understood as an …

Schnurr. (2013). Bio-hegemony and biotechnology in Uganda: Unraveling the strategies used to promote Genetically Modified crops into new African market. Journal of Peasant Studies, 40(4), 639-658.

My aim in this article is to uncover the network of corporate actors, development agencies, policy officials, and research scientists that support the unquestioned dominance of GM in Uganda. I rely on Gramscian insights reveal how these constellations of power align to support biotechnology at the expense of other technological possibilities, and how this consensus …

Schnurr, De Santo, & Craig. (2013). Using a blended learning approach to simulate the negotiation of a multilateral environmental agreement. International Studies Perspectives, 14, 109-129.

This is the first in a series of publications evaluating the effectiveness of a role-play simulation that integrates three educational delivery methods — preparatory learning, face-to-face learning, and online collaborative learning — to recreate the complexity of negotiating global environmental issues. Qualitative student feedback is used to analyze the benefits and challenges of this approach. …

Schnurr. (2013). Cotton as calamitous commodity: The politics of agricultural failure in Natal and Zululand, 1844-1938. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 47(1), 115-132.

This article follows the efforts of white settlers to impose cotton as an export crop in Natal and Zululand. Touted as a commodity capable of remaking land and life in the region in the 1850s, the 1860s, and again in the 1910s and 1920s, cotton never achieved more than marginal status in the region’s …

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Categories